Letters from Sweden designs retail and custom typefaces for local and international clients alike. Our mission isn’t just to churn out fonts, our purpose is higher. Printed or pixelated, what drives us is clear communication in the right voice. Our studio is 15 minutes from downtown Stockholm, at the edge of the woods in beautiful Björkhagen. We find it to be a breath of fresh air. We don’t just draw letters – we print them in type specimens and talk about them too, through lectures and workshops at any level of education. Our letters come from Sweden, but they are for everyone.

Blåkulla: Named after its blue residential buildings, My Longley designed Blåkulla while she was living in Hagalund, just outside Stockholm. This single-style, all-caps display face started off as her candidate work during her studies at Konstfack. The inspiration for Blåkulla came one day when Longley was standing outside and looked up at those majestic light blue facades.

Funkis: Designed with Fredrik Gruber for a collaborative art project, Funkis is a display typeface drawn for bold lettering and signage. It comes in three different weights of all capital letters. The digits are inspired by the characteristic number signs, commonly used on functionalist buildings and houses.

Ivar Nostalgi: The advent of phototypesetting in the 1950s liberated type design. As soon as letters stopped being physical things in metal or wood, it led to an explosion of exuberant and extravagant display type. A recurring aesthetic in the 1970s was large x-height, tight-but-not touching letterspacing, and extreme contrast. Ivar Nostalgi unabashedly taps into this golden age of display typography. The special cut of Ivar, tailored for compact, high-impact headlines, flirts with almost-forgotten faces like Times Modern, Caslon Graphique, Trooper Roman, Hawthorn and ITC Grouch.

Arctic Fox: Fjällräven develops durable, timeless and functional outdoor equipment. With art direction by Round and Round and Fjällräven we have developed a custom typeface family for Fjällräven called Arctic Fox. Work also included a design update of the classic fox icon and logotype.